Yooper

A little while ago another poster [just identified as willywill9, sorry for the delay] cited Quantcast as a reputable source for measuring visitors to various websites. I thought it would be interesting to rank the Big 10 blogs. I don't claim that I did an exhaustive search, but I did look up the blogs referenced here at MGoBlog, those noted at SBNation, as well as a couple of others sources, and used the highest ranked I could find. Here are the results, based on the rankings of all websites monitored by Quantcast. I did a sanity check of the Quantcast results with another web traffic monitoring service that directionally confirmed the Quantcast information. The final rankings are based on the Quantcast data. The Quantcast ranking is noted.

1. Michigan MGoBlog (9,995)

2. Iowa BlackHeartGoldPants (27,558)

3. Penn State BlackShoeDiaries (38,611)

4. Michigan State TheOnlyColors (49,263)

5. Ohio State Eleven Warriors (65,878)

6. Purdue HammerandRails (72,712)

7. Minnesota TheDailyGopher (74,545)

8. Wisconsin Buckys5thQuarter (80,744)

9. Indiana TheCrimsonQuarry (128,023)

10. Northwestern SippnOnPurple (198,832)

11. Ilinois HailtotheOrange (212,320)

Some other sites of interest:

Nebraska Cornnation.com (29,374)

Maize 'n Brew (39,315)

RCMB SpartanTailgate.com (842,514)

For some perspective as to the popularity of this site, I went behind the rankings a bit. The numbers noted (rounded for convenience) reflect the average for the last 6 months. Recent months, not surprisingly, are higher:

People/month Visits/month Pageviews/month

MGoBlog 200,000 1,300,000 6,000,000

ElevenWarrors 24,000 100,000 325,000

HailtotheOrange 6,000 8,500 13,500

RCMB 2,000 1,400 9,500

Even allowing for the inherent challenges with website tracking, I find the results rather remarkable. What do you think?

[mod disclaimer: these statistics are different than Alexa and other groups and likely don't capture full traffic. ex: RCMB receives more traffic than MGoBlog per Alexa.]